Zone d'identification
Cote
GB 3488 WoSCA/12/03
Titre
Robert Rowat Botany Collection
Date(s)
- 1979 (Production)
- 1937 - 1938 (Production)
Niveau de description
Dossier
Étendue matérielle et support
one box of 24 folders containing 108 botanical specimens.
4 pages of index
'Trained manpower for agricultural and rural development' by R. Rowat 1979
(Photograph of Robert Rowat inside cover of book)
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Histoire archivistique
The collection was kept in the family after Robert Rowat's death in 1983. Robert Rowat's daughter donated to SRUC Archive and Special Collections.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Gifted by Robert Rowat's daughter to SRUC Archive and Special Collections 03-03-2025.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
Specimens believed to have been prepared by Robert Rowat as a project in senior class of agricultural (and horticultural botany) and for which he won the McAlpine memorial prize in 1939-40 (WOSAC)